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Guatemalan Human Rights
Prosecutor
Sergio Morales Alvarado. |
Added
Feb. 09,
2006
Parents
Of Child
Victims In
Jutiapa
Pornography
Scandal
Continue To
Receive
Death
Threats
Victimas de
pornografia
infantil
continuan
siendo
amenazados
Continuing a
story first
reported on
February 6,
2006 (see
below), the
parents of
children
involved in
a recently
exposed
international
child
pornography
operation in
the city of
Jutiapa
[capitol of
Jutiapa
state] have
continued to
receive
received
death
threats,
according to
humanitarian
organizations.
The campaign
of
intimidation
that started
after
18-year-old
suspect
Edgar Murga
was
arrested,
has now
expanded to
include
threats
against
these
parents in
their
workplaces
and
communities.
-
Telediario
Guatemala
Feb.
7,
2006
LibertadLatina
note:
In Guatemala
as in most
of Latin
America, in
most cases
an
individual
must file a
criminal
complaint
(not a
government
prosecutor,
which is how
the U.S.
legal system
operates).
Therefore,
intimidating
a
complainant
in a
criminal
case is an
effective
way to end
the
prosecution
of a
criminal.
This process
adds to an
environment
of existing
official
corruption,
making the
public
vulnerable
to criminal
impunity.
Added
Feb. 07,
2006
En contra de
red de
pederastas
The
NGO
‘Social
Movement for
the Rights
of the
Childhood
and Youth’
has
joined a
demand by
the office
of the
Guatemalan
Prosecutor
for Human
rights
(PDH),
insisting
that a
recently
discovered
child
pornography
network in
the eastern
city of
Jutiapa be
completely
dismantled.
The
children’s
advocacy
organization
expressed
its
indignation
after that
authorities
discovered
the
circulation
of videos of
child
pornography
in
departmental
head of
Jutiapa,
where minors
between 12
and 16 years
were shown
in sexual
acts between
themselves
and with
adult men.
The
group views
the need for
new
legislation
defending
the rights
of children
and
adolescents
as critical
to avoid
Guatemala
becoming a
land of
impunity.
Past
attempts to
reform the
nation’s
penal code
in this
regard have
failed.
The
parents
of
the
victims,
prosecutors
and
judicial
staff
began
to
receive
death
threats
soon
after
the
first
of 5
wanted
suspects
in
the
case
was
arrested.
-
CERIGUA
News
Guatemala
Feb.
6,
2006
Added
Feb. 06,
2006
Guatemala
Parents
Of Child
Victims In
Jutiapa
Pornography
Scandal
Receive
Death
Threats
Siguen
amenazas por
caso de
pornografía.
The parents
of several
children
involved in
a recently
exposed
international
child
pornography
operation in
the city of
Jutiapa
[capitol of
Jutiapa
state] have
received
death
threats,
according to
humanitarian
organizations.
Sergio
Morales,
state human
rights
prosecutor,
confirmed
that a
series of
death
threats
against
parents of
the victims
began last
Wednesday,
hours after
one of the
criminal
suspects in
the case was
captured.
Jutiapa
Prosecutor
Sergio
Morales…
|
“These
criminal
groups
are
extremely
powerful,
and
they
are
used
to
operating
with
impunity.”
“
Personnel
of
the
prosecutor’s
office
and
the
local
court
have
also
received
threats.” |
The targeted
families
have
received
phone calls
filled with
verbal
insults &
demands that
they
withdraw
their
criminal
complaints
against the
accused
[private
citizens
bring most
criminal
complaints
in Latin
America].
Last
Wednesday
18-year-old
Edgar Murga
was detained
as a suspect
in the case.
Four other
suspects,
including an
unnamed
public
official,
are still
being sought
by police.
-
Prensa Libre
Guatemala
Feb. 6, 2006
Added
Feb. 03,
2006
Guatemala
Investigations
Into Child
Pornography
Rings
Continue
Guatemala:
investigan
pornografía
infantil.
German
police have
sent a
compact disk
to
Guatemalan
police
containing
pornographic
images of
Guatemalan
children.
The compact
disc
contains
images of
naked
children,
photos that
have been
circulated
on the
Internet.
Spain
recently
dismantled a
child
pornography
network that
operated in
about 40
countries,
including
Guatemala.
Last week,
in the
department
of Jutiapa,
a child
pornography
network was
broken up.
The 15
victims, all
between the
ages of 11
and 16, were
drugged and
used to
record
videos of
sexual acts
between
themselves
and with
adult men.
The victims
were offered
money.
They were
told that
the videos
would only
be
distributed
in Europe.
Despite
those
promises to
the victims,
the sex
tapes have
also been
sold in the
capital of
Jutiapa
state.
The United
Nations
Children’s
Fund
(UNICEF) has
urged
Guatemalan
authorities
to take
aggressive
action to
stop child
pornography,
and insist
that
Guatemala
criminalize
child
prostitution
and child
pornography.
- CERIGUA
Guatemalan
Human Rights
News
Feb. 01,
2006
See Also:
Jutiapa,
Guatemala
”The few
agencies
there are to
support
orphans and
impoverished
seniors are
found in
cities, if
at all, and
certainly
not in the
country.
Both groups
of people
suffer
greatly from
abuse by
families who
cannot
afford to
support them
and look at
them as an
extra load
in their
already
stretched
existence.”
- Auxilio
Rural
Integral
(Integral
Rural
Assistance)
Added
Feb. 01,
2006
Guatemala
The
Scandal
Grows Over
Guatemalan
Child
Pornography
Network's
Activities
Crece
escándalo
por red de
pornografía
infantil en
Guatemala.
-
Prensa
Latina.com.mx
February
1, 2006
UNICEF
Demands That
Guatemala
Investigate
Child Porn
Rings That
Operate With
Impunity
The regional
office of
UNICEF is
demanding
that
Guatemalan
authorities
launch a
serious
investigation
of child
pornography
rings said
to be
operating
virtually
unhindered
in this
Central
American
nation.
The office
of the
United
Nations
Children's
Fund in
Guatemala,
in a
communiqué,
asked the
authorities
to "take
quick and
decisive
action to
stop this
and all the
sexual
exploitation
crimes
against
children and
adolescents
that are
taking place
each day in
this
country."
UNICEF's
concern over
the matter
came to a
head after
the local
press
reported on
Monday the
existence of
an alleged
ring of
pedophiles
who produce
child porn
videos in
the eastern
province of
Jutiapa,
near the
border with
El Salvador.
The local
daily Prensa
Libre
reported
that the
pedophiles
film
children of
both sexes
ranging in
age from 11
to 16
committing
sex acts
with each
other or
being abused
by adults
evidently
while they
were under
the
influence of
drugs.
An
investigation
by the
Guatemalan
national
ombuds-man's
office found
that the
videos are
being
distributed
to
pedophiles
around the
world via
the
Internet.
- EFE
News Service
February
1, 2006
Added
Feb. 07,
2006
Guatemalans
Detect
Child
Porn
Net
Guatemala,
Jan 30
(Prensa
Latina) A
scandal is
shaking
Guatemala on
Monday,
after
detection in
the
country´s
eastern
region of a
child
pornography
network that
involves
school
children
between 11
and 16 years
of age in
the making
of video
tapes with
pedophile
content.
Human
Rights
Attorney
Sergio
Morales
ordered
a
thorough
investigation
after
receiving
this
weekend
a
report
by
parents
of
victims
that
live
in
Jutiapa,
a
bordering
department
with
El
Salvador.
The
Attorney
General´s
Office
received
seven
tapes,
showing
minors,
apparently
under
drug
effects,
performing
sexual
acts
with
adults.
The
victims
are
students
of
an
institute
of
Jutiapa´s
administrative
center,
where
the
network
was
uncovered,
due
to
sales
of
those
tapes
in
the
same
school.
Estuardo
Sarceño,
a
Juitapa
police
officer,
explained
that
they
are
trying
to
find
where
the
film
was
made
and
asserted
that
foreigners
could
be
the
encouragers
of
those
practices,
because
they
pay
great
sums
of
money
for
pornography.
An
international
group
devoted
to
production,
distribution,
and
exchange
of
child
pornography
films,
which
operated
in
40
countries
including
Guatemala,
was
recently
uncovered
in
Spain.
Humanitarian
organizations
denounced
the
legal
loopholes
in
this
country
that
hinder
severe
punishment
of
crimes
like
sexual
exploitation
of
minors,
and
production
and
sale
of
material
with
pornographic
content.
The
legal
loopholes
have
also
caused
an
increase
in
child
prostitution,
mainly
in
the
capital
and
the
bordering
areas.
Guatemala
ratified
the
Convention
on
Children´s
Rights,
but
failed
to
create
a
childhood
code
that
protected
minors
from
exploitation
and
all
kinds
of
sexual
abuse.
-
Prensa
Latina
Jan. 31,
2006
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